{"id":15659,"date":"2020-10-16T22:36:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T02:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=15659"},"modified":"2020-10-19T22:52:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T02:52:06","slug":"conversations-about-vancouvers-black-community-time-to-shift-which-topics-the-dialogue-is-focused-on-says-community-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/conversations-about-vancouvers-black-community-time-to-shift-which-topics-the-dialogue-is-focused-on-says-community-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversations about Vancouver&#8217;s Black community: time to shift which topics the dialogue is focused on, says community leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Tan Mei Xi<\/em><br \/>\n---<br \/>\n\"There's an opportunity to talk about what we're doing... outside of waiting for a city or a government to do some of the major lifts that need to happen,\" said Vanessa Richards, the facilitator of the anti-Black racism town hall recently held by the City of Vancouver. \"We're helping to make [policy change] happen, but what I don't want to see happen is that the only story about Black Van is the fulfillment of a community land trust, the conversation of our relationship to police, and a conversation that is only about us in relation to struggle.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"I wanted your listeners to have the opportunity to see 'wow, look at the beautiful stuff that's happening'\", Richards told The PULSE on CFRO. \"[The projects] are tangible... lives are being changed.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"We're getting it done. That's the story I want people to know about.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tan Mei Xi &#8212; &#8220;There&#8217;s an opportunity to talk about what we&#8217;re doing&#8230; outside of waiting for a city or a government to do some of the major lifts that need to happen,&#8221; said Vanessa Richards, the facilitator of the anti-Black racism town hall recently held by the City of Vancouver. &#8220;We&#8217;re helping to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":15667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,221],"tags":[597],"radio":[237],"origine":[280,262,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15659"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=15659"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=15659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}